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Of the two of us, Justin is definitely the skilled language learner. He pretty much taught himself Farsi on his mission! One of his favorite tools was a Farsi phrasebook, so naturally we had to get the Thai one. (We also own the Mandarin Chinese one..are we addicted to languages? Not one bit..)

  It's pretty great! Thai is tonal (oh joy..) so to help with that aspect of the language we bought an app for Justin's phone from the same company. It's the equivalent of this book with less phrases, but at least it will help us with pronunciation until we are able to read it on our own. We'll only be there for three months so it will take a lot of practice and exposure to the language on our part to pick it up. Language is such a crucial part of any culture and we're excited to learn. So far we've learned "Hello" "How are you doing?" and "Good, thanks"

Favorite thing about the cover: monk in the orange robe wearing glasses and holding an umbrella. That's modern Thailand, apparently? ;)